Chapter 24: The Cursed Calamity
You Chi came back with the four camels we escaped from last night, and I stood up, full of resentment, but I controlled my emotions, because I knew that a person who persecuted us and came back, with murderous intent in his heart, absolutely did not see us die, and we must know his motive for doing so. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Although Baocai didn't know the situation yet, seeing that You Chi was also angry, he pulled his voice and sneered: "Hey, You Ye, you are halfway away, and you are overwhelmed by your own conscience, right? Hey, how much benefit do you say we have given you? As soon as you leave like this, I will remember for you, we will calculate some money in a lump sum, and we will definitely have to deduct it when the time comes!"
You Chi didn't speak, the little Taoist and I climbed the sand mountain, and the Kushi glanced at You Chi with obvious anger in his eyes.
Wang Bajian looked at You Chi, although he was dissatisfied, but after all, he found the person, and he couldn't slap himself in the face, so he had to be able to say: "I saw that this brother was probably stupid last night, so he ran away without thinking so much......"
You Chi glanced up at Wang Bajian, two lines of tears and the mud and sand on his face slid down, he shook his lips, then rolled down from the hump, bowed to us, and said apologetically: "I was really scared last time, so I did such an immoral thing......" said and swept around us, explaining: " I didn't run far, I felt very uneasy in my heart, I wanted to come back one step earlier, I could help as much as I could, but when I was about to come back, I found scattered camels, I thought to myself that you need mounts, so chase the camels......" He wiped away his tears, looked at the treasure, and said: "This trip has not been accompanied all the way, you can give less money for the rest of the money!"
Baocai didn't expect him to say that, his heart softened, he waved his hand, and said, "Come on, they're all back, I'll deduct money for you, and I'm not Liu Papi!"
Looking at You Chi's guilty expression, I suddenly felt that this person might be able to be admitted to Beiying and become an actor or something in our era, if it wasn't for the little Taoist priest who gave me a preventive injection before, it is estimated that I would have been deceived by his excellent acting skills.
At this time, the old ancestor saw that we were in an awkward atmosphere, coughed, stared at You Chi with his eyes, and You Chi lowered his head unnaturally, and avoided the gaze of the old ancestor with palpitations, and the old ancestor saw him like this, smiled, and said: "Brother You Chi, along the way, we still need a guide, and the next road, you have taken it with us, and we will not pursue everything ......" When he said the word "good", the old ancestor increased his strength.
You Chigan laughed, nodded again and again, and the old ancestor said: "Then that's it, the matter will be stopped......" said, turned around, and complained to me and the little Taoist: "I said that you two dug this water, why did you pick out a hole in the eyes in half a day." He was like a child again, happily sliding down the dunes to do our unfinished digging work.
When I turned around and was about to go down to help, I accidentally glanced at You Chi, he looked at the back of the ancestor, and his face still maintained the false smile just now, but behind that smile was a treacherous meaning, I felt a sudden in my heart, although everything is important to the overall situation, but the existence of him and the library master is to insert two nails into our ship, if you want to pull it out, it will leak, if you don't pull it out, the boat will slowly have water seeping in.
When I arrived at the Gobi Desert with the little Taoist, the Kushi and others also came down to help, but during the day, there was no movement of the man-eating ants in the grass head sacrifice. The old ancestor said that the recent day journey was too difficult, and it was better to choose to travel day and night, and everyone agreed with this point of view.
Baocai's method of taking water gradually became effective, and the big guys took turns to drink the hard-won water, although the water quality was a little harder, but it finally brought us back to life. We sat in the shadow of the sand dunes to rest, looking at the big guy now not like a man, a ghost not like a ghost, the skin on his lips was upturned and cracked, I thought to myself, how many times in my life can I walk side by side in the yellow sand with the brother I think is worthy, through hardships and dangers?
I looked at the old ancestor, the little Taoist, Wang Bajian, thinking that one day I would be separated from them, return to my own time, live a calm as water, unchanged life, my heart actually surged with an unspeakable reluctance, I couldn't help sighing, but looked at Baocai looking at me, his eyes became more and more strange, I was stared at by him, joking: "Bao Ye, what are you looking at me like this? I can tell you, I have no interest in men, don't look at me like this anymore, I am stunned!"
But he still looked at me, and I was confused and shouted, "Hey...... What are you doing, Liu Baocai, what's wrong with my face?"
At this moment, except for him, the eyes of everyone else also fell on me, and I looked at them, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and the smile on my face gradually retracted.
"What's the matter......" I looked at them, feeling more and more uneasy. At this moment, the little Taoist priest grabbed my hand with a solemn expression and lifted my sleeve.
I was so nervous that I hurriedly said, "What the hell is the matter with you gods!" But Bao Cai trembled his fingers, stared at my wrist, and said speechlessly: "Gong...... Childe ...... Look at your ......."
I was a little confused by them, and I looked down at my wrist, and I couldn't help but be startled, my hand had somehow become like a cracked earth, and there were purple-red cracks on it, which was shocking.
I gasped, pulled down my sleeves, looked at the ancestor in a daze, didn't know what to say for a while, and thought to myself: "What...... What's the matter?What's wrong with my hand?" Infinite panic spread in my heart, and I suddenly thought of Bao Cai's face just now looking at me, could it be ...... My heart sank, and I touched my face in horror, and for a moment, my heart was like an ember of fire being extinguished by water, and the skin on my face was dry, not to mention, but also in pieces, like old tree bark......
Everyone was silent......
I don't know how long it took, the old ancestor spoke: "How can this be?" As soon as the words fell, Bao Cai said in a trembling voice: "In charge, your face ...... Also ......"
The Old Ancestor touched his skin in disbelief, and for a while, a strange atmosphere hovered above us, and the Old Ancestor coldly turned his gaze at Kushi and You Chi.
The master of the library was also calm, he was afraid that the old ancestor would suspect him, so he stretched out his hand, smiled bitterly, and said, "Heh...... Grass Head Sacrifice ...... We have all fallen under the curse of the barbarians!" Immediately, he looked at You Chi, You Chi's heart was weak, afraid that our Xingshi would ask for guilt, and said apologetically: "I was also on the high sand mountain just now and found that the grass here is arranged like a burial ground. We came from a lower layer of sand, so we didn't see clearly......"
The curator tugged at the placket of his clothes, his eyes flickered, and said, "Don't fill me with garlic, you say, what is the purpose of you bringing us here?"
You Chi innocently said: "Master Ku, I really don't know that this place is a burial place, you must know that there is a grass sacrifice here, and I won't come!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and said, "I'm also cursed!"
Kushi let go of the hand holding You Chi and snorted coldly, I saw that You Chi still had to pretend that things had nothing to do with him, and I couldn't help but feel angry in my heart, I really wanted to slap this kid. The little Taoist priest held my hand, not wanting me to have a seizure so early, I bit my lip, and watched everyone's faces begin to climb with this cracked line, and I panicked all of a sudden.
I forcibly controlled my uneasy emotions and pretended to be calm: "I have heard of the grass head sacrifice, but we have not dug up the bones in the grass, how can we be cursed by the grass head sacrifice?"
The little Taoist priest said coldly: "Because we are all bitten by man-eating ants...... he raised his eyes and looked at us: "This ant lives under the roots of the grass, and uses the human head as a nest to nourish the corpse qi all year round, and it is extremely yin, so once it opens its mouth to bite people, we will be harmed by it......"
Kushi sighed and said, "That's pretty much it, but this curse will evolve into a ......."
Everyone looked at him in unison, and the treasure was shocked, and his voice was hoisted, "What disease?"
"In the early days, there was a rumor of the curse, known as 'grouper', which was originally used by the hydroxybarians to punish slaves and control the weak tribes, and the originators of this method were local wizards.
'Cursed Calamity' is also commonly used for funerals. In order to keep the patriarch buried under the grass from being disturbed, the hydroxybarians cast a curse. It was previously said that as long as someone snooped on the treasure of the resting place, the curse of the grass head sacrifice would fall on the disrespectful person through the messenger, and the skin of the cursed person would be like snake scales, piece by piece, hideous and terrifying, and the terrible thing was that over time, the cracks on the human body would expand, and then slowly dry up and fall off...... Until all that remains of the cursed man is a pile of scarlet rotten flesh without a skin. ā
When I heard this, I looked down at my hands in amazement, and even my breathing became extremely heavy. I didn't expect those ants to play the role of messengers of the curse, to put it strangely, the hydroxyl barbarians raised man-eating ants back then, and then used some means to control them to protect the cemetery. Just like the curse of death in the tomb of King Tutakhamun of Egypt, it is only the cobra that plays a punishing role in his tomb.
The Kushi looked at me thoughtfully, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said: "Feng Gongzi, this is just the beginning, you only have a shallow crack now, but this curse will always be with us, and it won't be long before we all die tragically......"
Listening to what he said, I was extremely flustered, to be honest, I had died many times, but I must not die in such a tragic way as the Kushi said.
The old ancestor looked at the Ku Master and said, "Hey, don't be alarmist to scare Xiaoliuzi, I'll ask you, is there a way to break this curse?"
The Kushi nodded, and my heart was hot, so I listened to him: "Baptize with the holy water of the ancestors of the hydroxybarian tribe......"
"Ancestor, Holy Water?" the old ancestor muttered, "Their ancestor is the 'Loulan Ancient People' you said earlier?"
Kushi said: "That's right......" He got up, looked into the distance, and said: "The holy water is in Yanze, the hometown of the Loulan people, we need to purify ourselves through the water there and get salvation!"
When Bao Cai heard this, he was so anxious that he said, "How much time do we have?
The Kushi lowered his head, looked at us, and said with a deep face: "Seven days...... The Hydroxy Barbarians believe in 'seven', and important things are done after seven days, including unnatural death. Saying that, he looked at the old ancestor and said in a hoarse voice: "We'd better set off early......
Although I was very worried about our situation at this time, the Kushi had also fallen under the curse of the Grass Head Sacrifice at this time, which meant that he had to go to Shiozawa with us, which was so coincidental that I was so frightened. (To be continued.) )